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Committee backs substitute allowing city-triggered feasibility studies for county splits
Summary
The committee gave a favorable recommendation to the first substitute of HB 2 12, which creates an alternate path for splitting very large counties by allowing a one-third-by-population coalition of cities to trigger a funded feasibility study and then a countywide ballot; the measure passed the committee 8–4.
Representative Tesher introduced HB 2 12 as an alternate route to split very large counties, saying the current petition route — signatures from one-fourth of a county’s registered voters — is impractical in counties like Salt Lake County. Under the first substitute the committee recommended, counties with populations over 1,000,000 could be the subject of a county split process initiated when petitioning municipalities that together represent at least one-third of the county’s population adopt triggering resolutions within the same calendar year.
The substitute requires those petitioning cities to fund a feasibility study that…
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